Fish and Wildlife Service officials and the other federal land agencies intervened in the recovery plan for the northern spotted owl, compromising the science-based protections in order to reduce barriers to logging in old-growth forests.

The GW Bush White House overruled unanimous advice of its scientific advisors to weaken the EPA’s proposed National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone—an air pollutant associated with respiratory ailments and premature death.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) threatened an agency scientist with suspension after he refused to include industry-funded science downplaying the dangers of asbestos in a safety warning for auto mechanics.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission twice altered their scientific testing procedure before concluding that children’s lunch boxes containing levels of lead that exceeded Federal recommendations were in fact safe.

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service email directive instructs its Alaskan employees who request travel not to discuss polar bears, sea ice, or climate change unless they are explicitly authorized to do so.

The George W. Bush administration has sought to undermine the view that human-caused emissions are making a discernible contribution to global warming.

Unions representing 9,000 EPA scientists and professional staff said the EPA has taken more care to cooperate with the agriculture industry than to ensure the health of children and vulnerable Americans in a letter to the EPA.

Dr. James E. Hansen, the top climate scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), warns that the world has little time to waste in reversing its current trend toward global warming.

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officials compromised the integrity of a BLM study by removing scientific concerns about the effects newly relaxed grazing regulations would have on public lands.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of the Interior officials forced FWS scientists to manipulate their findings to validate a decision to deny protection under the Endangered Species Act to Arizona bald eagles.